Finalist 2018
Guillaume Delleuse
Born in 1986, Guillaume Delleuse is a photographer and plastic artist. A graduate of the Marseille School of Fine Arts and the ENSP, he was noticed by the Rencontres de la photographie in Arles in 2016, where he exhibited an extract from Corpus.
In his work, the Marseillais satisfies his obsessions: the Christian religion, the body and the skin, in the street theater. He works without hiding, in close combat, sometimes in flash, at the risk of provoking a confrontation with his subject. It is at this price that he seeks to sculpt the real, as do Mark Cohen, Leon Levinstein or Bruce Gilden. At the end of 2016, thanks to the support of Leica France, he produced some of the images in this series during a residency at the prestigious International Center of Photographer (ICP) in New York.
In his work, the Marseillais satisfies his obsessions: the Christian religion, the body and the skin, in the street theater. He works without hiding, in close combat, sometimes in flash, at the risk of provoking a confrontation with his subject. It is at this price that he seeks to sculpt the real, as do Mark Cohen, Leon Levinstein or Bruce Gilden. At the end of 2016, thanks to the support of Leica France, he produced some of the images in this series during a residency at the prestigious International Center of Photographer (ICP) in New York.
Corpus, 2016-2018
The body and architectural space, or how bodies interact in a defined space. A space defined by a place, a situation, a given moment.
My images are part of an ever expanding photographic corpus. I like to observe what surrounds me, it is an integral part of my practice. To answer the question of gender and its future, I have put together a subset of images from one of my research on gender ambiguity. Androgynous people are more and more frequent. This project is therefore above all a work of observation. I show these people simply because I find a singularity that attracted me. I photograph a lot of people in the urban space and am very sensitive to people who have their own identities and who assert them. Their dualities are complex and the result is not complex images in their compositions but rather in their readings.
My images are part of an ever expanding photographic corpus. I like to observe what surrounds me, it is an integral part of my practice. To answer the question of gender and its future, I have put together a subset of images from one of my research on gender ambiguity. Androgynous people are more and more frequent. This project is therefore above all a work of observation. I show these people simply because I find a singularity that attracted me. I photograph a lot of people in the urban space and am very sensitive to people who have their own identities and who assert them. Their dualities are complex and the result is not complex images in their compositions but rather in their readings.
